Do people not know how to read phone books anymore? Or do they even bother trying to locate one? Everyone seems to call the Ref Desk in order to locate phone numbers these days, which is okay but it goes a little above and beyond my call of duty when they insist that I dial the number first to see if the party they are seeking actually lives there. If I can't manage to find the listing in the phone book or criss-cross directory I assume that the number is unlisted or they have a cell phone instead of a land line.
Try explaining all this to a severly deaf and emphatic senior citizen who swears that they once called this number in 1978 and their friend Gloria answered. This request for phone information can soon segue into a multi-state obituary search if one is not adept at their phone reference skills. Doesn't anyone dial 4-1-1 anymore?
Try explaining all this to a severly deaf and emphatic senior citizen who swears that they once called this number in 1978 and their friend Gloria answered. This request for phone information can soon segue into a multi-state obituary search if one is not adept at their phone reference skills. Doesn't anyone dial 4-1-1 anymore?
